Oct. 11, 2016, 8:42 p.m.

After declaring his shackles had been cast off and spending most of Tuesday swiping at fellow Republicans, Donald Trump stuck to a relatively conventional script Tuesday evening: bashing Hillary Clinton.

Trump's speech, delivered off a teleprompter, kept its focus largely on the hacked emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, which are being released in batches by WikiLeaks.

Trump ticked off a litany of what he described as revelations from the emails, ranging from excerpts of speeches Clinton delivered to Wall Street interests indicating support for globalized trade to campaign staffers micro-managing the candidate's message and actions.

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Oct. 11, 2016, 6:27 p.m.

Donald Trump said Tuesday that when he tweeted that his shackles had been removed, he was referring to the establishment Republicans -- especially House Speaker Paul D. Ryan -- who are deserting him in the aftermath of recordings emerging of him speaking crudely about women.

“The shackles are some of the establishment people that are weak and ineffective within the Republican Party … led to a certain extent by Paul Ryan being nasty to the nominee,” Trump said in an interview with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News. “… They don’t give the support we really need. I think I’m maybe better off without their support, if you want to know the truth.”

Trump was responding to a question about what he meant when he tweeted Tuesday morning, “It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.”

It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to.

Oct. 11, 2016, 6:18 p.m.

The FBI is investigating the hacking of the emails of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, he said Tuesday night, suggesting that they were leaked to distract from Donald Trump's taped remarks about women.

“It wasn’t any coincidence that within minutes of the 'Access Hollywood' tape coming out, they decided this was their countermove to try to take the public’s attention off the despicable things that Donald Trump said on that video," Podesta said aboard Clinton's campaign plane.

"Circumstantial evidence" exists that Trump allies may have coordinated with WikiLeaks to release Podesta's emails, he said, calling the act criminal.

Oct. 11, 2016, 5:02 p.m.

After penning a Facebook post over the weekend that left some of his supporters believing he would back Hillary Clinton for president, Glenn Beck wants to clear the air: He’s not supporting her, or Donald Trump.

"It has been widely reported I am either endorsing or voting for Hillary Clinton as president," he wrote on his personal website on Tuesday.

He added, "Let me be clear I am firmly against both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as potential presidents of the United States of America. I believe that neither candidate has the values, decency or principles to be the leader of the free world."

Oct. 11, 2016, 4:20 p.m.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who has a history of tangling with politicians, said Tuesday she had been contacted by women who witnessed improper behavior by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and that she was pressing for the release of unaired footage from “The Apprentice.”

“They allege inappropriate conduct by Mr. Trump,” said Allred, adding that she was contacted before and after the emergence Friday of a recording that showed Trump using vulgar language about women and boasting that he could kiss them and grab them without their consent because of his wealth and celebrity.

Allred declined to say how many women had contacted her to detail their experiences or to explain what they would do next, citing attorney-client privilege. She spoke in an interview after holding a news conference in which she called on "The Apprentice" creator Mark Burnett and MGM to release unaired footage from the show where Trump served as the host, or prove why they are legally prohibited from doing so.

Hillary Clinton spoke for more than 20 minutes here, making the case for her own election as president. But it took Al Gore just seconds to deliver the message of the day.

"Your vote really, really, really counts," the former vice president told an audience in Miami-Dade. "You can consider me as Exhibit A."

In the 2000 election, Gore lost the state of Florida by just a few hundred votes, and with it, the presidency to George W. Bush. A manual recount of contested ballots was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court more than a month after election day.

Across the country, Republicans in contested races face a terrible bind: They have to run from Donald Trump to hold onto swing votes, even if that angers some core supporters.

But in secure, heavily conservative GOP districts, Republicans face the opposite pressure: to cleave fast to Trump, who remains popular despite statements that have alienated many voters.

The crisis sparked by the Trump campaign has split the Republican Party in two, and, ironically, the gerrymandering of districts that helped build the GOP congressional majority is now working to make that fracture worse.